Doctors are on the front lines of medical cost containment. So the recent finding that younger, less experienced doctors “cost” us more money than older, more experienced ones may offer some clues to what it takes to cut medical expenses.

Tracie Afifi, PhD and her colleges knew that there hasn’t be a study quite like theirs—on the effects physical punishments as children and their mental state as adults—so they set out to find out just how much of a correlation could be drawn between the two.

Most women yearn to be tall, with the long legs of a supermodel. However, a new study conducted at Oxford University and published in The Lancet Oncology could make shorter females content, and even happy, with their lesser stature.